Porsche: Who will be the next lucky Junior? 🎥
FUTURE The door to a professional career is wide open for a Porsche Junior. At the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve in Portugal, twelve up-and-coming racing drivers took part in a scouting competition.
Among the candidates are two drivers who have already caused a stir in Switzerland. Johannes Kapfinger (gallery left) was nominated by Porsche Schweiz AG. The 20-year-old motorsport newcomer from Passau won the GT3 Cup of the Porsche Sprint Challenge Suisse and Morris Schuring (18, gallery right) finished fifth in the 2023 Carrera Cup Germany with Fach Auto Tech and fourth in the Supercup. He has already celebrated race wins in both series.
Support of 225,000 euros
Participation in the Porsche Junior Scouting is one of the most important milestones in their young motorsport careers: in addition to support of up to 225,000 euros, the winner can look forward to support from Porsche Motorsport. All candidates come from the worldwide Porsche one-make cups. Their goal: to become the 30th Junior in the 26-year history of the sponsorship program. The twelve have one thing in common: they were no more than 24 years old at the time of the selection process. At the same time, they caused a sensation in 2023 with the 911 GT3 Cup, which has around 510 hp, in one of the sports car manufacturer's more than 30 one-make cup series.
Maximum equality of opportunity
Sascha Maassen, former Porsche works driver and coach of the junior drivers: "For us, it is important to ensure the greatest possible equality of opportunity. The participants should make the difference, not the external conditions. We take this responsibility very seriously. Fast lap times and flawless performance with the 911 GT3 Cup on the track certainly play an important role. At the same time, however, we also look at how the candidates behave beyond that: How they work with the engineers, what feedback they give on the car, whether they are capable of learning and can motivate a team. A Porsche Junior automatically acts as a representative of the brand. He must be able to deal with media tasks and be mentally capable of development. In the end, it's the overall package that the talent offers us that makes the difference."
Fuel from the eFuels pilot plant
During the driving days, the candidates completed a total of 820 laps over a total of 3,841 kilometers on the Grand Prix circuit. The four Cup race cars that were available to them for this purpose were refueled exclusively with almost CO2-neutral fuel from the Chilean eFuels pilot plant "Haru Oni". The plant was the result of a joint initiative between Porsche, the Chilean company HIF Global (Highly Innovative Fuels) and international partners such as Siemens Energy.
